Pain from sneezing?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve been sick for the past week, and for the past 2 days, I’ve been having sneezing fits. Very often, when I sneeze (especially if I sneeze a few times in a row), I get a burning pain in my shoulders and elbows. Also, sometimes for a few seconds after the sneeze, my skin gets super-sensitive, as if I’d been lit on fire.

I’ve polled my friends and family, and about 1/3 of them have experienced this…the other 2/3’s don’t have a clue what I’m talking about.

Does anyone know causes this pain? Does anyone else go through this? Is there a way to make it stop?

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I get the same thing from time to time. I always assumed that the force of the sneeze compressed a nerve bundle, kind of like hitting your funnybone.

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[Kindergarten Cop]It might be a tumor.[/Kindergarten Cop]

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“It’s not a tumor.”

And I, too, have some very painful sneezing fits.

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I sometimes get a pain in my chest when I sneeze. It feels like what I assume a heart attack feels like.

I asked my doctor about it. He didn’t go into detail but he did say it had nothing to do with my heart.

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Hmmm, no pain upon sneezing but I do get a pain in my heart (that’s what it feels like, anyway) just from breathing sometimes. Being stabbed with a red-hot dagger couldn’t hurt any worse. Thankfully, as long as I don’t breathe for a few moments, it usually goes away.

I did check with a doctor once. He said it was “growing pains.” Perhaps I should have been flattered that he didn’t realize I stopped growing 20 years ago.

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I get this pretty much every time I am about to, currently am, or recently was sick.

I sneeze and every joint in my body (including where my ribs connect to my sternum) feels like it just came apart. My skin tingles. It usually passes quickly, though.

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sneezing or coughing, I get something like this. Like someone hit you in the stomach with a train or something.